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Google's Library Up and Running

An anonymous reader writes "It seems that Google Print results are beginning to appear on searches. For those who don't know, Google has been scanning from libraries from some of the world's greatest universities in order to compile a freely accessible online library. An easy way to turn up these results is to simply type "book", and then whatever you want to search for. For instance, book origin of species will turn up the full text of Charles Darwin's controversial treatise. 20,000 leagues, Oliver Twist and Pride and Prejudice and m o r e are all there in full. It'll be interestin to see how publishers deal with this if demand for these books declines. In the meantime, would anyone like to point out any good books?" Hopefully, Google can also start to index some books that are being released in the Creative Commons/alternative open licenses.

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  1. Re:one cliche, one other by yagu · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    from the original post: ..., In the meantime, would anyone like to point out any good books? , ...

    Seems like my reply was in order, and I get modded down twice for offtopic?!? For answering a direct question in the post?!?

    Fsck off and Byte me!!!!!

    Okay, NOW mod me troll or flamebait!, slashholes!

  2. Re:Holy Bible? by micromoog · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Link here.